GRADUATES CLASS OF 1912 317 

Upon entering the Service Sproat was appointed a field examiner 
in the United States Forest Service, being located on the Whit- 
man National Forest, Sumpter, Ore. He now holds the position 
of forest assistant on Deschutes National Forest, with head- 
quarters at Bend, Ore. 
He is a member of the Congregational church. 
Carl M. Stevens 
Business address, United Sintes Forest Service, Coeur d’Alene, Idaho 
Home address, Auburn, Maine 
Carl Mantle Stevens was born October 16, 1888, in Portland, Maine, 
the son of T. J. Stevens and Hattie M. Stevens. He is of English 
ancestry. A brother, Neil Everett Stevens, received the degree of B.A. 
-at Bates in 1908, M.A. at Yale in 1909 and Ph.D. in tort. 
He received the degree of B.A. at Bates College in IgIo. 
He is unmarried. 
Since graduation Stevens has been located in District 1. His 
first appointment was as a forest assistant on the Coeur d’Alene 
National Forest, Coeur d’Alene, Idaho. In April, 1913, he was 
transferred to reconnaissance work. 
Clarence E. Taylor 
R. F. D. 2, Granger, Ind. 
Clarence Egbert Taylor was born November 11, 1886, in Scott County, 
Kans., the son of James Arthur Taylor and Melissa Helen (Rupe) Taylor. 
His paternal grandparents were Egbert and Elizabeth Taylor. Egbert 
Taylor was born in what is now Cleveland, Ohio, in 1809, the first white 
child born in that township. His ancestors were English and Scotch and 
his wife’s were Scotch-Irish, all coming to this country previous to the 
Revolutionary War. Melissa Helen (Rupe) Taylor’s father was born 
in 1831 in Indiana of German-Huguenot ancestors, who had settled in 
North Carolina before the Revolution, her great-great-grandfather dying 
in that war. Her mother was of Pennsylvania Dutch descent. He has 
two brothers and a sister: Delbert Jacob Taylor, Purdue University, 
Glenn Arthur Taylor, and Susan Mae Taylor. 
He was prepared at the South Bend (Ind.) High School and received 
the degree of B.A. at Wabash College in 1910. He was apprenticed to 
learn the carpenter’s trade. 
He is unmarried. 
